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| Thread ID: 35625 | 2003-07-17 11:18:00 | What brand HDD should I avoid at present? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 160695 | 2003-07-17 11:18:00 | Hi Team The primary HDD in my W2K box has started making loud "noisy fan" sounds at switch on and failing to boot (screen stays completely blank). When the noises die down, a reboot fires it up OK and it works fine the rest of the day. Presuming that this is indeed the HDD, one day soon it is going to fail completely so I am looking for a replacement. I don't need anything monstrous so something in the 40-60GB range will do nicely as these seem to be sub-$150 everywhere these days. What brands are currently showing good reliability and which should I avoid? Cheers Billy 8-{) ?:| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 160696 | 2003-07-17 11:40:00 | My pick at the moment would be anything Seagate or a Wester Digital Special Edition. Though of course anything could fail. If people were to avoid anything which they'd had a bad run with before they'd end up with no computer. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 160697 | 2003-07-17 13:07:00 | Hi Billy: On a thread early in June, we chatted about backing up & HDD reliability. In answer to this question, the URL I posted there gave the results of reliabilty tests of HDD's. Maybe it could assist you now in checking HDD's reliability, so here it is again. www.driveservice.com Best wishes. |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 160698 | 2003-07-17 13:38:00 | Looks like Seagate gets the nod on Bazza's link, which is heartening, because thats all I use now after some Quantum Bigfoot and Fireball troubles. Seagate are nice quet drives too but not the fastest in the speed stakes not that it makes much difference for general office apps. Seagate did have a bad batch sometime last year, sorry, can't remember the series, do a Google. Don't need to mention backing up do I! Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 160699 | 2003-07-17 13:46:00 | I would suggest enabling SMART in your System BIOS if you havent already...although it may be too late for it to be effective from what Ive read up on it... | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 160700 | 2003-07-17 23:00:00 | Dont buy a Maxter Viper 40 gb HDD I have one and its noisy,and will fail soon like the rest of my crap computer. I wish I still had my Macrom 17 gb UDAMA 66 SEAGATE TEDHEATH |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 160701 | 2003-07-18 00:41:00 | If you've got a spare $400ish dollars you could get one of the new maxtor raptor drives running at 10,000rpm with a 5yr war. Even though only 36 gb these are great drives, and noisy like you might expect. Chuck a couple of these babies in RAID 0 and they should fly... But wishfully thinking on my part since I'm not going to be able ever justify 800 for 36 GB N |
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